http://www.funnell.org Family trees and fallen leaves Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:35:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:01:50 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=550 At a time when climate change is becoming ever more preoccupying, researching family history once again allows to put things into perspective. An article in an 1853 edition of satirical magazine “Punch” relates a fictive "Thames steamer Captain Funnell’s" arguments during a meeting called to oppose Home Secretary, Lord Palmerston’s London smoke abatement act. An early insight into continuing public ignorance supported by industrial propaganda. For researchers, this site gives a very interesting environmental timeline.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/captain-funnell-preferred-the-smog/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:50:58 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=499 Ronald Spencer Funnell was born in 1894 in Totnes, Devon. After World War One, he married a Newquay lass, Phyllis Maud Cock, and after a spell in Croydon, they settled in her home town with their 3 children, the fourth being born at St Columb. Ronald, who for many years ran the Post Office at Newquay, was also an author of local touring guides and notably, surfing manuels. The British Surfing Musuem is urgently looking to contact his descendants.]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/ronald-spencer-funnell-surfing-pioneer-on-the-cornish-coast/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:16:22 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=39 http://www.funnell.org/archives/thomas-funnell-burwash-gangster-1838/feed/ 3 http://www.funnell.org/archives/a-regulator-clock-by-edward-funnell/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/a-regulator-clock-by-edward-funnell/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:03:33 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=482 John Sherlock very kindly sent in this photo of his regulator clock made by Edward Funnell of Brighton. Click below to see an enlarged photo.
 ]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/a-regulator-clock-by-edward-funnell/feed/ 3 http://www.funnell.org/archives/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:20:24 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=464 http://www.funnell.org/archives/t%e2%80%99wus-fer-frenchys%e2%80%99n%e2%80%99foreigners-i-bluv/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:54:05 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=453 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tim-cladpole-4/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:37:34 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=450 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-jan-cladpole-3/feed/ 1 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:49:46 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=448 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-the-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-2/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:12:06 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=435 Richard Lower was born at Alfriston, Sussex on the 19th of September 1782. He opened a school about 1803 in the parish of Chiddingly, where he must have known many of our Funnell ancestors. He resided there until a few months before his death in 1865. In 1830, his first work was printed as a sixpenny pamphlet: Tom Cladpole's Jurney to Lunnon, told by himself, and written in pure Sussex doggerel by his Uncle Tim. Spiced with typical British humour, his text offers not only an insight into the changing world our rural ancestors lived in (the London Bobbies were formed in 1829) but also as to how “they spoke Sussex”. You will not regret reading on…]]> http://www.funnell.org/archives/learning-sussex-dialect-with-tom-cladpole-1/feed/ 0 http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/ http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:53:40 +0000 Andy http://www.funnell.org/?p=406 http://www.funnell.org/archives/robert-funnell-20-years-in-the-royal-navy-1845-1865/feed/ 1